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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Free Treatment for Rare Genetic Diseases
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has formulated a National Policy for treatment of Rare Diseases in India to progressively build India’s capacity to respond comprehensively to rare diseases covering areas of: prevention, awareness generation, training of doctors, funding support for treatment on the parameters to be defined by a Central Technical cum Administrative Committee, promotion of research and development for drugs for treatment of rare diseases and diagnostics at affordable prices and measures for making the drugs for rare diseases more affordable, strengthening of laboratory networks, development of Centres of Excellence etc. On the whole, the Policy seeks to strike a balance between the interest of patients of Rare Diseases and health system sustainability. The Policy also recognizes and delineates the role of various Ministries and departments in the area of Rare Diseases.
Funding mechanism as given in the National Policy for treatment of Rare Diseases in India is as under:
• Setting up a corpus fund at Central level with the initial amount of Rs. 100 crore towards funding treatment of rare genetic diseases.
• Similar corpus at State level and contribution of funds by the Centre towards the state corpus to the ratio of 60:40 out of the central pool.
• It is up to the States to have a corpus of a larger amount. Requirement of funds by States is as per PIP process.
The Minister of State , Smt Anupriya Patel stated this in a written reply in the Lok Sabha here today.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Update on COVID-19 Vaccine Availability in States/UTs
More than 131 Crore vaccine doses provided to States/UTs
More than 21.64 Crore balance and unutilized vaccine doses still available with States/UTs
The Union Government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country. The nationwide COVID 19 vaccination started on 16th January 2021. The new phase of universalization of COVID-19 vaccination commenced from 21st June 2021. The vaccination drive has been ramped up through availability of more vaccines, advance visibility of vaccine availability to States and UTs for enabling better planning by them, and streamlining the vaccine supply chain.
As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, Government of India has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID Vaccines free of cost. In the new phase of the universalization of the COVID19 vaccination drive, the Union Government will procure and supply  75% of the vaccines being produced by the vaccinemanufacturers in the country to States and UTs.
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VACCINE DOSES
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SUPPLIED
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1,31,05,07,060
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BALANCE AVAILABLE
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21,64,01,986
More than 131 crore  vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far through Govt of India  and through direct state procurement category.
More than 21.64 Cr  balance and unutilized COVID Vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Shri Piyush Goyal calls upon the Cost & Management Accountants to ensure quality production by industry and help boost India’s exports
Exports is the virtuous circle of prosperity that we have to focus upon, says Shri Goyal
A strong and stable Rupee will be for the “wider good” of foreign trade; Shri Goyal
“As the Prime Minister says, ‘When each one of us takes one step, it’s 135 crore steps towards prosperity”: Shri Goyal
Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, Shri Piyush Goyal has called upon the Cost & Management Accountants to ensure quality production by industry and help boost India’s exports. Cost Accountants help make the Indian Industry cost competitive and cost conscious, he said.
“If we start loading costs to our export products and if we literally start doing marginal costing on the other hand, it can make a world of difference to our cost competitiveness, our ability to increase our exports and, frankly, our ability to  recover its cost and  start reporting profits,” said Shri Goyal, after giving away the ‘17th National Awards for Excellence in Cost Management-2019’ and ‘5th CMA awards-2017 & 6th CMA Awards-2019’, organised by the Institute of Cost Accountants of India  here today.
Shri Goyal said ‘Exports’ is the “virtuous circle of prosperity” that we have to focus upon.
“Anything we add on the exports front is adding to our economic activity; when we add to our economic activity, look at what all we are doing, -  we earn precious foreign exchange, which will help us balance our import requirements, our foreign currency requirements, in addition to, of course, investments and large remittances that over 3 crore Indians all over the world send to India, but we still have a shortfall,” he said.
Underlining a strong and stable Rupee will be for the “wider good” of foreign trade, Shri Goyal said our higher Forex reserves help our currency from depreciation.
“If we can save our currency from depreciating, we can reduce interest rates, we can reduce the impact of inflation on our society, after all we have a large number of products that we are importing,” he said.
Shri Goyal said ICAI has been nurturing the Cost & Management Accountant  professionals for 78 years. Today, it is the 2nd largest Cost & Management Accounting body in the world & largest in Asia, with more than 85,000 professionals, and about 5 lakh students pursuing CMA.
Shri Goyal said the CMAs are the guardians of growth. Keeping a check on costs, they help organizations in ensuring that there’s efficiency in every activity, he said.
“Let’s all take one step ahead in this journey. And as the Prime Minister says, ‘When each one of us takes one step, it’s 135 crore steps towards prosperity,” he said.
Ministry of Defence
Significant rise in value and number of cases processed by Defence Services following delegation of enhanced financial powers
The delegation of enhanced financial powers by the Ministry of Defence  to the Services has led to a significant increase in both value and number of cases processed at the Service HQ, command and lower formation levels across the three Services.
From the data provided by the SHQs regarding the impact of delegation of powers, it is observed that there has been a clear surge in the cases being finalised at the level of SHQ and other formations leading to a decrease in the time taken to finalise the procurement cases. This has resulted in the optimal use of the budgets allocated to the MoD.
During the period 2016-18, the Defence Services were progressively delegated higher financial powers for both routine as well as emergency procurements with the aim to reduce procurement time-frames and enhance defence preparedness.
On the capital side, the Services now have powers to accord Acceptance of Necessity  for individual schemes costing up to Rs 300 crores, a sharp jump in two stages from Rs 50 crores during 2015-17 to Rs 150 crores during 2017-19 and to Rs 300 crores in 2019-20. On the revenue side, the Services are now authorized to clear proposals amounting up to Rs 500 crores at their level. This dispensation came about in October, 2018 and replaced the earlier limited delegation of Rs 200 crores.
The MoD undertook a review in July, 2019 to assess the impact of higher delegation of financial powers to the Defence Services. The review concluded the following:
- With regard to the Army, as against a total of 327 cases referred to MoD for the grant of AoN between April 2012 to 31st March, 2015 only 132 cases were referred during 2015-17.
- Similarly, during FY 2016-17 and up to 31st December 2018, there was a steady decline in AoNs accorded and contracts concluded by the Navy with MoD approval and corresponding increase in the number of AoNs accorded and contracts concluded under financial powers of the NHQ.
- As far as the Air Force is concerned, around 80 – 85 per cent of the contracted value is now sanctioned at the Air HQ itself.
- The value of AoNs accorded and contracts concluded under delegated financial powers of Commands and lower formations has also increased steadily during the period.
- On Capital side, the AoNs by SHQ have gone up substantially from 21 per cent in 2015-17 to 67 per cent in 2019.
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
COVID-19 Vaccination Update - Day 311
India’s cumulative vaccination coverage crosses 117 crore landmark milestone
More than 63 lakh Vaccine doses administered today till 7 pm
India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 117 Crore landmark milestone  today. More than 63 lakh  Vaccine Doses have been administered till 7 pm today. The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of the final reports for the day by late tonight.
The cumulative coverage of vaccine doses, segregated based on population priority groups, is as follows:
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Cumulative Vaccine Dose Coverage
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HCWs
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1st Dose
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10382408
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2nd Dose
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9415595
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FLWs
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1st Dose
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18376342
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2nd Dose
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16337683
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Age Group 18-44 years
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1st Dose
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444503457
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2nd Dose
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194814430
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Age Group 45-59 years
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1st Dose
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181233862
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2nd Dose
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112116621
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Over 60 years
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1st Dose
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113506839
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2nd Dose
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74782388
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Cumulative 1st dose administered
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768002908
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Cumulative 2nd dose administered
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407466717
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Total
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1175469625
Today’s achievement in the vaccination exercise, segregated by population priority groups, is as follows:
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Date: 22nd November, 2021 
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HCWs
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1st Dose
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114
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2nd Dose
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7510
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FLWs
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1st Dose
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222
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2nd Dose
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17549
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Age Group 18-44 years
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1st Dose
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1419635
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2nd Dose
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3103869
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Age Group 45-59 years
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1st Dose
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341337
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2nd Dose
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868495
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Over 60 years
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1st Dose
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209044
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2nd Dose
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430390
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1st Dose Administered in Total
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1970352
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2nd Dose Administered in Total
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4427813
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Total
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6398165
The vaccination exercise as a tool to protect the most vulnerable population groups in the country from COVID-19 continues to be regularly reviewed and monitored at the highest level.
Ministry of Culture
The first India-Central Asia Culture Ministers’ meeting held
We should acknowledge our mutual historical, traditional, and ancient links and come together for further strengthening of cultural bonds: Shri G. Kishan Reddy
Minister of Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern Region Shri G. Kishan Reddy hosted the first India-Central Asia Culture Ministers’ Meeting through video conferencing on 3rd April, 2023.
The Culture Ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan participated in the meeting. The India-Central Asia Summit hosted by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, on 27th January 2022 had laid emphasis on promoting cultural cooperation for better understanding of culture between the Central Asian countries and strengthen our age-old cultural linkages which bind our people together.
Today’s meeting followed the resolution of their Leaders to promote cultural cooperation for better understanding of culture between the Central Asian countries and strengthening age-old cultural linkages of the region. The Ministers presented their perspective to take forward their leaders’ commitment for further strengthening of cultural cooperation in the region.
In his opening address, Shri G. Kishan Reddy spoke about the historical and cultural linkages of India and Central Asia. The Minister referred to the eternal teachings of ahimsa or non-violence preached by Buddha. He stated that shared Buddhist heritage is a cherished spiritual bond which needs to be further cultivated and propagated for harmonious relations. He called for acknowledging the mutual historical, traditional and ancient links and to come together for further strengthening of cultural bonds.
At the end of the meeting, Indian side proposed a Joint Statement in testimony to the first India-Central Asia Culture Ministers Meeting. The participants agreed to convey their consent at the earliest to acknowledge the meeting and its continuance at regular intervals.
Ministry of Defence
Facilities to Children of Martyrs
Prior to 7th pay commission children of martyrs were eligible to receive full tuition and hostel fee till they get their degree
The details of the tuition fee and hostel charges till they get their degree prior to 7thpay commission notified vide letter No. 62009/Edu. Concession/D, dated 25th October, 2010 are as under:-
- Tuition Fee:- Full reimbursement of tuition fee  levied by the educational institutions concerned .
- Hostel charges:- Full reimbursement of Hostel Charges for those studying in boarding schools and colleges. After the 7th pay commission Government had restricted the said fee to Rs.10,000/- per month vide order No.6/2009/Edu.Concession/D, dated 13th September, 2017.
The decision was taken by the Government on the recommendations made by the Seventh Central Pay Commission  in Para 8.17.42 and 8.17.45 regarding Educational Concessions to the Children of Armed Forces Officers / Personnel Below Officer Ranks  Missing / Disabled / Killed in action vide order No. 6  / 2009 / Edu. Concession /D, dated 13th September, 2017.
The case was taken up with MoD vide TRIPAS letter No.C/7026/VII CPC/73/Allce, dated 10th October, 2017.
In continuation of this Department’s letter vide order No.6/2009/Edu.Concession/D, dated 23rd March 2018, it has been decided with the approval of competent authority that the cap of Rs.10,000/- per month imposed on the combined amount of Tuition Fees and Hostel Charges vide para-5 of the order dated 13th September, 2017 stands deleted and all other provisions remain unchanged and the Educational Concession will continue to be admissible without the cap of Rs.10,000/- per month.
This information was given by Raksha Rajya Mantri Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shri Asaduddin Owaisi in Lok Sabha today.
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Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports provides financial assistance for training of athletes to Paralympic Committee of India , All India Sports Council for Deaf  and Special Olympic Bharat 
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports runs various schemes for the promotion of sports across the country which are gender-neutral and cater to all sections equally including that of women and marginalized sportspersons in the country. These schemes include:  Khelo India Scheme;  Assistance to National Sports Federations ;  Special Awards to winners in International sports events and their coaches;  National Sports Awards, Pension to Meritorious Sportspersons;  National Sports Development Fund;  Sports Training centres run through Sports Authority of India . Details of these schemes are available in the public domain on the website of the Ministry.
Under the Khelo India scheme, there is a dedicated sub-component of “Sports for women” wherein emphasis is laid on such sports disciplines where there is less participation of women. Under this component, Khelo India Women’s leagues are being organized, and exclusive for women sports persons competitions have been organized in 14 sports disciplines with a total participation of 23,963.
To promote sports among the differently-abled sportspersons, a dedicated centre has been established under the National Centre of Excellence  Scheme at SAI Regional Centre, Gandhinagar for Para Sports. The centre is operational in the discipline of Athletics, Badminton, Fencing, Swimming, Power Lifting & Table Tennis . Further, all SAI Stadiums and training centres have been made differently-abled-friendly.
At present, the Paralympic Committee of India , All India Sports Council for Deaf  and Special Olympic Bharat  are being provided with financial assistance towards training of athletes, including requisite facilities for their preparations which include food supplements, equipment support, state-of-the-art infrastructure, lodging, travelling facilities, services of reputed Indian and foreign coaches/supporting staff, sports kit etc.
For training abroad and participating in international competitions in India and abroad through the scheme of Assistance to NSFs, budget is approved for each NSF through an Annual Calendar for Training and Competition . The details of funds provided to the PCI, AISCD and SOB through ACTC during last 4 Financial Years  and current year.
This reply was given by Minister of Sports & Youth Affairs Shri Anurag Singh Thakur in Lok Sabha today in a written reply.
Prime Minister's Office
PM meets Google CEO Sundar Pichai
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has met Google CEO, Shri Sundar Pichai and discussed innovation & technology among other things.
In response to a tweet by Sundar Pichai, the Prime Minister tweeted;
“Was a delight to meet you Sundar Pichai and discuss innovation, technology and more. It is important the world continues to work together to leverage tech for human prosperity and sustainable development.
Ministry of Coal
Outstanding dues of Coal India Subsidiaries
At present, there is no cash crunch in Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries. However, gross debtors of Coal India Limited  and its subsidiaries stood at Rs. 22165.85 crore and Rs. 15293.17 crore  as on 31.03.2021 and 28.02.2022.
Subsidiary-wise coal sales dues as on 31.03.2021 and 28.02.2022 is as below:
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Name of Subsidiary
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Balance as on 31.03.2021
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Balance as on 28.02.2022 
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Increase/ decrease over 31.03.2021
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Coal Company
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Total
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Total
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Total
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Eastern Coalfields Limited 
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4,793.34
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3,162.02
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-1,631.32
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Bharat Coking Coal Limited 
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3,639.03
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1,483.87
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-2,155.16
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Central Coalfields Limited 
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4,213.61
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2,833.76
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-1,379.85
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Northern Coalfields Limited 
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3,118.18
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2,173.33
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-944.85
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Western Coalfields Limited 
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3,461.54
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2,662.93
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-798.61
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South Eastern Coalfields Limited 
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2,465.69
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3,374.52
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908.83
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Mahanadi Coalfields Limited 
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1,428.88
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847.85
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-581.03
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North Eastern Coalfields 
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11.17
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11.17
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0.00
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TOTAL CIL
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23,131.44
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16,549.46
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-6,581.99
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 Adjustment for Provision for Coal Quality Variance etc
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965.59
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1,256.29
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290.70
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Gross Debtors
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22,165.85
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15,293.17
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-6,872.69
Price of domestic coal is deregulated in nature and not notified by Government of India. Coal producing company, Coal India Limited determines the prices of domestic coal based on various factors such as costing, future projects viability, changes in inflationary cost indices, competitiveness with imported coal etc.
The last revision in price of coal was done by CIL with effect from 01.12.2020 whereby prices were increased by Rs. 10/- per tonne across all the 17 grades of coal for both regulated and non-regulated sector. In percentage terms it translates in an increase of 0.3% to 2.25 %  and 0.3% to 1.88 % .
There is no significant short term borrowings as on 31.12.2021. However, Rupees 46.50 crore of Short term bank borrowing is outstanding in Bharat Coking Coal Limited & Rupees 0.14 crore of Bank Overdraft is outstanding in Eastern Coalfields Limited as on 31.12.2021.
This information was given by the Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pralhad Joshi in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Development of North-East Region
Earning a living through Animal husbandry- A initiative of NERCRMS, a society under the aegis of NEC -UNDER MINISTERY OF DoNER.
NgoyumYumyang, who lives in Lazu Village, Ollo Community, Tirap District, Arunachal Pradesh, as a single mother and sole breadwinner, she has endured a lot of hardship to support her family. Her family consists of one son and one daughter.
After the sudden death of her husband, she realised that her family’s income was about to collapse, who was the only earner in the family by doing small daily wages. She no longer had the funds to feed the family and had to face many difficulties in providing food and education for her children. Going through this hardship, she never gave up and hoped for good days to come.
She had no idea what she could do for a living because she was illiterate and her main occupation was Jhum cultivation. She could only provide food, not a proper quality education. She realised that if her children do not receive a proper education, they will face the same difficulties that she is going through.
Through the NERCORMP Project of NERCRMS, with each minor detail, she began to learn more and more about this project. She took an idea from the project and came up with a proposal for a cow. Through NERCRMS she received two cows and decided to start increasing the number of cows
Over the years, NgoyumYumyang, has had a better life. She started with two cows and now has more than ten. She would earn money by selling the cow, and the manure from the cow dung would provide a good source of organic matter for improving soil fertility and crop yields.
Since agriculture is the main source of income, cow dung plays an important role in her life; As a result, her vegetable garden began to offer crops all year with the help of cow manure. Earlier, the soil was not fertile and bad for vegetable cultivation. As a result, production was extremely low.
She now has a decent standard of living and has enough money to provide food and a good education for her children. She never loses hope in life and is continuously looking for ways to improve her situation.
Special Service and Features
Union Minister Dr L Murugan visits Kodungallur
(Kochi, January 17, 2023
Union Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting and Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Dr L Murugan, who reached Kerala for a two day visit, reached Kodungallur today. The Union Minister had darshan at the Kodungallur Sree Bhagavathi temple, where the famous Thalappoli festival is going on. The Union Minister who reached Kochi on Monday  had darshan at Sabarimala as well.
Ministry of Finance
India and Japan signs a Loan Agreement worth Rs. 1817 crore for the ‘Project for the Construction of Turga Pumped Storage ’contributing to the Industrial Development and Living Standard Improvement in the State of West Bengal
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A Loan Agreement was signed here today between Shri C.S. Mohapatra, Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs , Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Mr. Katsuo Matsumoto, Chief Representative, JICA, New Delhi on Japanese Official Development Assistance loan for the construction of Turga Pumped Storage  of Yen 29.442 Billion  [Exchange RATE: 1 Rupee= JPY 1.62]
The objective of the Project is to strengthen the capability to respond to fluctuation in supply and demand of power and to improve stability of the power supply by constructing the pumped storage facilities, thereby contributing to the Industrial Development and Living Standard Improvement in the State of West Bengal.
India and Japan have had a long and fruitful history of bilateral development cooperation since 1958.In the last few years, the economic cooperation between India and Japan has steadily progressed. This further consolidates and strengthens the Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan.